Joseph Sullivan (rower)

Joseph Sullivan MNZM ( born April 11, 1987 in Rangiora ) is a New Zealand rower who won the world title in the double sculls in 2010 and 2011.

Sullivan finished 2005 with double sculls with Daniel Karena the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships. In 2007, he took along with Nathan Cohen fifth place at the World Cup in Amsterdam. In the U23 World Championships in 2007 Sullivan won the One, a year he repeated this success at the U23 World Regatta. In 2009 he won at the U23 World Championships along with Robert Manson in the double sculls. 2010 then made ​​Joseph Sullivan and Nathan Cohen of the New Zealand double sculls in the adult class, according to a seventh place at the World Cup in Munich, and a third place in Lucerne won both the title at the World Rowing Championships 2010 on Lake Karapiro in the North Island of New Zealand. That Sullivan and Cohen were successful not only in front of his home crowd, they showed in 2011 with a World Cup victory in Hamburg and Lucerne, as well as the successful title defense at the World Rowing Championships 2011 in Bled. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London Cohen and Sullivan erruderten the gold medal in front of the Italian two.